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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 3:07 pm
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C. Howitt Fealz
 
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Originally Posted by jkhuggins
As opposed to TSA's hypocrisy?
  • You can't bring ice through the checkpoint ... unless Britney Spears does it, in which case TSA will suddenly discover that it changed the policy awhile ago and just forgot to tell everyone and update the website. (Which still, by the way, doesn't make it clear that passengers without medical needs can bring ice through the checkpoint.)
  • BDOs are supposed to detect "suspicious" passengers ... but, somehow, TSA seems unable to find suspicious employees within their own ranks until someone else figures it out and tapes them / arrests them / files suit against them, in which case TSA complains that "we couldn't possibly have known that they were suspicious".
  • TSA claims that WBIs can't preserve pictures of scanned passengers ... until someone finds the original specification for the WBI machines, which shows that the machines can in fact preserve pictures, at which point TSA backpedals and says "oh, yeah, it can, but only in Diagnostic Mode(TM), which we promise will never accidentally be turned on."
  • TSA crows on the front page of its website about the .0001% of passengers that it finds carrying firearms. Yet when FTers talk about the .0001% of TSA employees that violate the law, we're told that "nobody's perfect".

I could go on. But I trust you see the point. TSA doesn't exactly have the moral high ground when it comes to hypocrisy.

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